Martha Palmer

PALMER

Posted By: Philip Pease (email)
Date: 10/12/2004 at 21:09:33

PALMER, Martha nee Clark

MARION (Iowa) SENTINEL, Thurs., December 7, 1893

Mrs. Martha Palmer, nee Clark, was born in Schenectady, N. Y., March 18, 1818, died Marion, Iowa, Dec. 3, 1893, aged 75 years, 8 months, 15 days.
Mrs. Palmer's health was poor for the past year, but her last and fatal illness began two weeks ago with a stroke of paralysis, which terminated in death on Sabbath morning.
Mrs. Palmer was united in wedlock to Mr. Sylvanus W. Palmer, April 2, 1836, and lived nearly 40 years of married life. Jan., 2, 1875, death broke the happy union, when her
Husband who was a devoted and earnest Christian worker in the M. E. church, and a loving and true husband was called to the higher life. This union was blessed with seven children, five sons and two daughters. One of the sons died in infancy. The two daughters after grown to womanhood and enjoyed a brief period of marriage life [Sic.], died at the age of 24. The other sons survive their mother's death and were present in her last illness,
administering every comfort possible.
Mother Palmer gave her heart to the Lord at the early age of 15, and became a member of the M. E. church, and remained a faithful and honored member ever since. In the year 1843, she with her husband moved from New York to Kane Co., Ill., where they shared in the hardships and privations of early Methodism in that state; the home was always open for the minister of the Gospel of Christ, then hospitality was given cheerfully and freely. In 1863 they moved from Ill., to Linn Co., Iowa. Here after 12 years of united toils and strugglings our sister suffered a severe stroke of affliction by the death of her husband, but she bore it with perfect resignation and Christian fortitude. Since then Mother Palmer has lived with her sons spending the last 4 years of her life with her son C. A. Palmer. Mother Palmer was an honored Christian woman, and that Christian patience and fortitude, which characterized her whole Christian life of 60 years, was more perfectly exemplified in her last sickness. She was willing to suffer, as well as to do, for her Master. Her faith was strong in God and her hope bloomed with immortality.
She has entered into hopes fruition.
Services were held at the M. E. church, Springville, conducted by Rev. Walter Piper, Rev. Schaffer assisting. Internment in the Springville cemetery.